Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-29
TERRA INCOGNITA.
Texas q Land That Is Unknown In the
East and Classed With the I'm
explored Regions.
The Greed for InfoI m alton CONCERNING the
state-Millions of Money Ready to In
vest When Texas Is Advertised.

we al Know now texas uhs suucIcu
from Misrepresentation and SANDER in
the last decade, butfew know how much
the state is suffering On account OF the ig-
norance of the outside world concerning
the resources of the state. In order to
learn how little is known about Texas, it
is only necessary to go away
from home. From gentleman
who has spent considerable time north
and east, GAZETTE reporter has
learned many things which will show the
necessity Of action on the part OF the
state. The policy inaugurated some
years ago by the state authorities Is do
ing its work and should be counteracted.
Said THE GAzETTE's informant: II have
been in New York and Boston tor some
time and was astonished at the poverty
of information relative to Texas and her
advantages to be obtained. No one
knows anything about the state. The
brsiny men, the thinking, busy business
men who are always on the alert for
good investments and who have millions
to invest know nothing about
the state, and frankly though re-
gretfully acknowledge the fscs. They
dIC dAAICuS w 1CnAh a1S SSE way .
that can give them any Information.
Texas is called the New Unknown
The shrewdest business men know moth
ing about Whist we have down here.
Every other state has been advertised,
and they are familiar with every other
state, but Texas they know nothing
about. To the men Of Wall street it is
like Mexico-a strange land. They know
- IT,. 4 x1rvb$ nj
sational newspapers that publish all the
train robberies and homicides, and they
believe thst the state is dominated by the
bowie-knife. the six-shooter and Win
chester rife. When I told them
hat L would feel safer in Texas
than on wall street they looked
st me incredulously. They could not be-
lleve it. When told them and proved
70 many of them that Texas had every
| resource, every element, that has made
any state, north or south, they were
! thunderstruck. The recent discoveries
of coal ana iron make it possible for
Texas to build several new towns equal
to Birmingham, Ala, but they did not
know it. They thought 1t was cowboys
and cattle in the interior and cotton
around the coast. But they are anxious
| to learn. To illustrate how keen those
capitalists are for information and data,
will mention one incident. 1 have
a friend in Boston who has q
great passion for books, and he
is constantly gathering them. Every time
msn dies up there leaving library the
entire list of books is advertised, If the
library, and ne goes to the sales and
| selects such as he requires. He told me
that books or pamphlets that related to
Texas were the only ones that brought
full original price, and that they were al
ways in demand. Everybody wants to
buy them and they are sold high. If the
state was properly advertised among the
business men capital would pour in here.
II people could be induced to come here
there would be no trouble in securing in
vestors, but the total ignorance of the
resources OF the state in tie
most enlightened circles is appalling and
a barrier to immigration. What do
think of the late conve ntion? l think il
was the wisest thing Texas people ever
done. II they go to work right and prop
erly advertise the state, and if the reil-
roads do their part California will be lost
sight OF. Mark what tell you, Texas is
on the eve of one of the greatest booms
that have ever struck any section OF
country, and it Is coming soon. These
people have nothing 10 learn now bat
Texas. and they are going to learn Texas
thoroughly. Once the resources Of the
state are even half known. capitalists
will be falling on each other in their
haste TO get here and invest. Texas is
the coming state, and IS soon IS the tide
sets in look cut for an overflow"
This Is cheering news, and il our peo-
pie will only take advantage of the apX-
ietY to learn about the resources O! Texas
we Can soon feel the effects Of it.